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Presenting: The Golden Standees 2015 (pt 1)

Like mentioned last week, there was going to be something different this week. I’d like to introduce The Golden Standees! Our own (quite random) awards for board games!

I’m not going to explain all the awarded Golden Standees, they are quite self explanatory. Perhaps the first one might be strange if you’ve never played Coup. All the players in this game have hidden identities and can either speak the thruth or lie about which character they are. It’s very handy to be the Duke in this game since you get to take 3 coins and you prevent other players from taking Foreign Aid (2 coins) in a turn. So people often lie about being the Duke in our experience.

The ‘Best Wallet Sucking Game’ – award is not meant as a negative remark or that the game is extremely expensive. We love Netrunner and thus the game forces us to get more amazing cards each time. 😉

There will be more Golden Standees next week! See you then!

Scott B

I was pleasantly surprised to recognize a picture in the Android Netrunner frame. Honor and Profit, in the middle on the bottom row, is the only expansion I’ve bought so far and I really like the pre-constructed decks it comes with! I’m actually reusing the box it came in to wrap a gift card as a Christmas present, haha.

Coup is something I’m hoping to either get for Christmas or with gift cards from Christmas. I watched Geek and Sundry play it on a Tabletop episode and it seems like there’s so much strategy involved.

Games in this comic:

Potions, potions, potions! Alchemists is all about brewing amazing or very faulty concoctions by combining different ingredients. The goal of the game is to find out what the magical properties are of each ingredient. This is a game of worker placement, puzzling and deduction. Is the paper your fellow alchemists published true or false? Choices! Will you test your potion on yourself or will you experiment on a student? Alchemists comes with a free app for your phone or tablet, with which you scan your ingredients - it feels magical.
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Netrunner is an asymmetrical Living Card Game for two players set in the dystopian future of the Android universe. Each game is played as a battle between a mega-corporation and a runner ("hacker") in a duel to take control of data.
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Coup is a game of secrets and bluffing. Are players the identities they are claiming to be? Or is it a trick to just quickly get more money with which they could try to assasinate you or launch a coup... A very cool game up to six players for which you'd like to train that poker face of yours.
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In this game, players will create their own species and with it a dynamic ecosystem. Will you be a herbivore, looking out for plants to eat or a carnivore, luring out for other smaller species around? Whatever your choice is: it will influence the balance of the build up world! Defend your species with hard shells or spikes or give them long necks so they can reach for food in the highest trees.
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Yeehaa! A game set in the Wild West that'll give you trigger happy fingers. In this dexterity game you have shoot at targets by flicking disks around the table at other people's meeples. A fun game for all ages! You can dual, play out the scenarios or just make up your own stories. Everything is possible in this beautifully crafted wooden game.
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